Doctor Pleads Guilty To Prescribing Drugs
The website run as Dial-A-Doc run by a Kauai medical doctor pleaded guilty in federal court and will face sentencing on October 26th. The doctor identified as Dr. Harold Spear III plead guilty to four counts of dispensing medication without a medical reason.
According to the U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo Jr. in the Hawaii case the charges stemmed from the charges of prescribing the drug methadone to a Hawaii resident in four instances. There were also charges in the state of Alabama for prescribing Hydrocodone. The charges for the prescriptions occurred during 2005 and 2006, around the time I wen to the Hawaii Nissan dealer there. That was a great Nissan I might add.Spear is facing a maximum of up to 85 years in prison and fines that total $4.2 million dollars in fines for the guilty plea for the four counts of prescribing the medication from the Dial-A-Doctor website.
